It happens few enough times that an anime series blows me away completely, but the Aria franchise has managed to do exactly that. It wasn’t too long ago that I did a review of Aria the Animation and based on my experience with that series I was pretty keen to go ahead and watch the [...]

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There was a lot of excitement generated last year when it was finally announced that South Africa would be getting its own anime channel. The end of November finally rolled around and there was a sigh of collective relief when the channel started airing as promised.
Unfortunately – it must be said – Animax has turned [...]

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South Africa has long been a bit of a desert, in terms of anime. Until fairly recently (meaning the last two years or so), a lot of people in this country didn’t really know what anime was – as a matter of fact, there was a large number of misconceptions surrounding anime – most of [...]

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Yes, as you can read, I’m doing a two-in-one this time around, I’ve decided to review both the manga and the anime in this particular post. Starting first, the manga:
I’ve long been a fan of Akamatsu Ken’s work – ever since I first came across Love Hina (the anime) about 3 years ago.
Negima is Akamatsu’s [...]

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This is just a quick little post about a random little site I came across.
The site’s name is Serendipity, and it features a whole bunch of very useful name generators that are free to use. Sure, name generators are a dime a dozen these days, but its the first time I came across so many [...]

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